prostata-package: prostata

In mclements/prostata: Prostate Cancer Microsimulation for Sweden

prostata

Introduction

The packages provides implementations of discrete event simulation in both R and C++.

Background

Prostata is a natural history model of prostate cancer model which extends the model developed by Ruth Etzioni and colleagues at the [[http://www.fredhutch.org][Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC)]]. This is a well validated prostate cancer natural history model developed within the [[http://cisnet.cancer.gov/prostate/profiles.html][Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET)]]. We here provide our extensions of the model with extended states and finer calibration. The model is provided as an R package, depending on our [[https://github.com/mclements/microsimulation][microsimulation]] frame work. We specifically developed this package for modelling the cost-effectiveness of prostate cancer screening, where many (e.g. 10^7) men are followed from birth to death.

Running the simulation

There are a number of available testing scenarios. They determine testing frequencies and re-testing intervals over calendar period and ages.

Author(s)

Mark Clements [e-mail]

References

https://github.com/mclements/prostata

https://github.com/mclements/microsimulation

See Also

Rcpp

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